Upsets and Close Calls

All hail the underdog...Georgia Tech, Illinois, BYU and Vandy...and a few others that came close. All this just serves the reminder that no matter how well you think you can predict - you can't.

Upsets

• Illinois over the best defense in the land.
• BYU over undefeated Boise State. That was the best 3rd quarter of football BYU has played in a long, long time.
• Georgia Tech over Miami...in Miami.
• Vanderbilt pulling off the upset over Missouri when Mizzou was having visions of the SEC-East crown.

Close Calls

• Kentucky and Georgia scoreless at halftime? OK - there was a torrential rain but the Dawgs looked eerily similar to last week in their 2OT loss to South Carolina. (Maybe they're just holding back for the Florida - Auburn - Missouri - SEC Conference (?) games?).
• Michigan almost regained some footing by tying up the white out game... but they are gone for good in 2019 if they lose to Notre Dame next week.
• Washington seemed to have it all sealed up and then Oregon came back. Three losses was not the UW expectation this year.
• Texas barely held off Kansa - the Mad Hatter is at it again. 
• South CArolina kept things interesting with Florida hoping to pull off a second upset in as many weeks.
• And the Sooner Schooner took a tumble - but everyone was OK.

More in Week 9?

Feasibly...

• Auburn could knock off LSU.
• Wisconsin could knock off Ohio State.

Not likely but it would make things interesting...

• Michigan may just have enough stored up anger to pull off a W over the Irish.

ohhh - we're halfway there...

Halfway mark has been reached and as we all expected deep down, just not what we really expected six weeks ago...

Clemson no longer holds the top spot...or the #2 spot.
Bama has the top spot but LSU and OSU are getting votes, too.
(That Bama - LSU game is gonna be wild!).
Oklahoma showed some weakness but they still have a full package.
Georgia - not the dominant team we expected (but we had already noticed).
Washington can't decide if they want to be good or not.
Arizona, ASU and Oregon are getting noticed and rightfully so.

Will the PAC-12 have a playoff team this year afterall?. Maybe so if the SEC-west beat each other up.

And to the Georgia Dawgs...hang on. Remember Auburn 2017? And LSU 2018? You went on a tear after those surprising losses and you really could not be stopped. Here's to hoping you go on the same kind of tear and continue to disrupt the Top 10.